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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1037. Funerary inscription

Description: Limestone column h: 2.35
Text: Inscribed on the face
Letters: No description

Date: Second to third centuries CE (prosopography)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: West Necropolis, reused as a doorpost in a building at Ez-Zeita.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum

Interpretive

D(is) M(anibus)
L(uciae) Siliae L(uci) fil(iae) Pia(e)
L(ucius) Silius Plautius
Haterianus
5u(ir) c(larissimus)
patruus
h(eres) f(ecit)

Diplomatic

DM
LSILIAELFILPIA
LSILIUSPLAUTIUS
HATERIANUS
5UC
PATRUUS
HF

English translation

Translation source: El-Nemsi, 1997

To the spirits of the dead. Lucia Silia Pia, daughter of Lucius (scil. Silius), Lucius Silius Plautius Haterianus, member of the senatorial order, her paternal uncle and heir, made this (scil. monument).

Bibliography: El-Nemsi, 1997 no. 8 212, whence AE 1997.1586, EDH 049862

Images

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